Showing posts with label Tournai. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tournai. Show all posts

Monday, 21 November 2016

Les voeux du paon (Morgan MS G.24)

Cassamus upsets a chess game, f. 25v.

Colloquial name(s):
 Les voeux du paon
Official name(s): Pierpoint Morgan Library, MS G.24

Date: c. 1345-50 (source)
Origin: probably Tournai, Belgium (source)

Online facsimile available via: CORSAIR (all illustrations) and the Morgan Library & Museum online collection of Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts (almost all folios)

Tuesday, 7 June 2016

Lancelot-Grail (BL Add. MS 10292, 10293, 10294 and 10294/1)

Joseph and his father talk to Queen Sarracinte (Seraqueite).
BL Add. 10292, f. 17r.

Colloquial name(s): Lancelot-Grail (The Prose Vulgate Cycle)
Official name(s): British Library Additional MS 10292, 10293, 10294 and 10294/1

Date: 1316 (source, source, source, source)
Origin: N. France (Saint-Omer or Tournai) (source, source, source, source)

Online facsimile available via: British Library Online Catalogue of Digitised Manuscripts - BL Add. MS 10292, 10293, 10294 and 10294/1